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  Visitors to Wash. Hts. hosp lost in translation
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Last EditedBob  Jun 16, 2005 06:33am
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News DateThursday, June 16, 2005 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWhen Vincente Mayorga went to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center recently, he asked for a Spanish-speaking interpreter who could help him tell doctors of his back pain.
The closest the Ecuadoran immigrant said he got was a brochure - in English - about the hospital's translation services.

"He [the interpreter] said he was sorry, but that he was very busy," said Mayorga, 51, who suffers from four herniated discs. "I can't explain to the doctors what it is I'm feeling and I can't understand them, either."

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